Re: Font problem on git master

[T.V Raman]

Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:
I ran into a similar issue over the weekend after building emacs from
Git.

I had inherited these lines in .Xresources from way back:
Emacs.FontBackend:      ftcrhb,xft,x
Emacs*font:     -adobe-Utopia-normal-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1

After the update/build, emacs refused to start in GUI mode, -- emacs -nw
worked, and it displayed the font backend error when started as emacs
under X.

I worked around the problem by commenting out the emacs.font line and it
started with Adobe Courier.

This morning, I updated the font backend line as suggested by you, and
now I get over 3,000+ fonts -- and uncommenting the Adobe Utopia line
does not cause the error.

Could we update the News file with  details on what font backends are
now recommended?


>>>>>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:52:34 +0100, Robert Pluim <address@hidden> said:
>     Robert> If all else fails, can you run 'strace emacs' with your normal 
> config
>     Robert> to see if it?0?3s loading some site-specific configuration files? 
> Those
>     Robert> might be messing with the font setup.
>
> In fact, looking through Andreas' package repo, I see it includes an
> app-defaults.Emacs that does:
>
>     Emacs.FontBackend:                xft,x
>
> which is going to cause problems on a cairo-enabled build. Is it
> possible for you to remove that setting, or try something like
>
>     Emacs.FontBackend:                ftcrhb,xft,x
>
> or
>
>     Emacs.FontBackend:                ftcrhb,x
>
>
> Robert
>

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